Browsing all posts in December, 2008.
New Revenue Streams
In the clear reality of rapidly declining cd sales, we are starting to see little glimpses of revenue streams for the major labels. These new revenue streams were unlikely even a speck of imagination 10 years ago for most of the labels. But just this week, we have seen EMI launch a new website to [...]
Live Nation-al Debt
When Live Nation signed multi-million dollar deals with U2 & Madonna, they also included equity shares of the company into the deal. The idea being that U2 & Madonna would help build the company and should be able to receive some of the monetary compensation of Live Nation’s growth. Well, the economy didn’t really turn [...]
Digital EMI
EMI has launched a new platform in Beta on their main URL www.emi.com. Here one can peruse artist videos, biographies, songs, etc. This site has a iTunes look to it. A very simple and clean look. The site has a dual purpose. The obvious one is to be a hub for information and content for [...]
Universal China
Rock Records, the leading independent music label in China and Asia as a whole, has just entered into an agreement with Universal Music for sales & distribution in mainland China. Rock Records is based out of Taiwan and has a number of successful Mandarin-language artists. This is not the first deal between Rock & Universal. [...]
Pearl Jam Re-Release
Pearl Jam, one of the bands that defined Grunge music, is re-releasing their first major album, Ten. But, they are taking a different, and very novel approach to the re-release. They are not going to sell it in a record store, or even in a major retailer. Instead, the re-release will happen in the popular [...]
Torturous Tunes
The US Army is using certain music from US bands to try to break detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Inmates are placed in a darkened room and then have music repeatedly blaring at them continually for a period of time. The unfortunate artist list includes AC/DC, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Nine Inch Nails, David Gray, Metallica, Drowning [...]
Scandinavian Mobile Downloads
TeliaSonera, a Swedish telecom company, has launched a service called Telia Musik, which is a set-price all-you-can-download service for mobile subscribers. Users will be able to download songs to their mobile devices from a catalog of more than 3 million songs from all of the major labels save Sony. Some of the Indie labels are [...]
Universal & India Partnership
Here is some exciting news about a partnership between Universal Music Group and Eros International out of India. Eros Int’l is an integrated studio in the media and entertainment industry in India’s bustling Bollywood scene. The partnership will consist of a joint venture artist-management agency. The goal will be to promote Indian popular music acts [...]
Musica Latina
Just in time for Christmas, a new Latin-music focused online digital store is set to launch in a few days. The site is MusicaLatina.com and it contains songs from all of the major labels as well as indie labels. Songs will go for the iTunes price of $0.99/song with some songs going as low as [...]
YouTube’s Domination
YouTube continues on its amazing rise in viewed videos. For October of this year, they had an astounding 100 million unique users. These users watched a total 5.4 billion videos. Yes, 5.4 billion. During this period, 13.5 billion videos were watched across the web as a whole. That gives YouTube a 40% market share. Next [...]
